The weekly roundup of the web’s best tech news includes – Review of Virgin Mobile LG Rumor Touch, Review of CiragoTV Platinum CMC2000 1.5TB Network Multimedia Player, Review of Nextar M3-03 3.5″ Touchscreen GPS, LG unveils Bali GM360, LG GX300 and Pure GD550, Toshiba unveils new Satellite Pro Laptops, SandForce SF-1200 SSD Firmware Comparison, Google to Launch Chrome OS and Chrome Netbook Late September, Motorola FlipOut smartphone gets official, Refurbished Verizon Cell Phones and A Camera that Needs To Be Thrown to Take Pictures .
Review of Virgin Mobile LG Rumor Touch
Today for review I’ve got the LG Rumor Touch on the Virgin Mobile network, which is a subsidiary of Sprint. The Rumor Touch can be considered a smartphone, but it’s really not in that it doesn’t have Android or WinMo on it, or really any real operating system like one would expect on a smartphone. It’s on Sprint so I expected decent call quality, I’ve used Sprint before and it was fine but I has issues here with the Rumor Touch, so it has to be the phone and not the network. It’s a touchscreen phone as you might expect by the name, but I found it to be very frustrating to use, it’s not very responsive at all honestly, I found myself touching the screen many times to get something to happen or I’d try and do something and something that I didn’t want to happen would
Read more at TestFreaks.com
Review of CiragoTV Platinum CMC2000 1.5TB Network Multimedia Player
Up on the review block today is Cirago’s TV Platinum CMC2000 1.5TB Network Multimedia Center. I personally have not yet had the opportunity to review anything like this for the site, so this was an exciting product to receive. The box boasts that it contains a 1.5TB hard drive for storage of recorded video and pictures, can record live TV, stream media, play internet radio, access files over your network via built-in NAS and look at all types of pictures. That’s a lot of stuff, so let’s take a look.
Read more at iGadgetLife.com
Review of Nextar M3-03 3.5″ Touchscreen GPS
This Nextar M3-03 Portable GPS Navigation System offers a multitude of features at an incredible price! It can show you how to get to ANY destination in the United States – by address, by intersection, or by a location selected directly from the map. With Text to Speech you get clearly pronounced instructions, including street names in English, Spanish or French. Plus, the included Secure Digital card comes pre-loaded with the entire USA map!
Read more at BonaFideReviews.com
LG unveils Bali GM360, LG GX300 and Pure GD550
LG has finally released information regarding three of their upcoming mobile phones on their official site. These phones are the LG Bali GM360, LG GX300 and LG Pure GD550. Some time back, details were leaked on these phones which some of them turned out to be untrue when compared to the official features. In a way, to stop tech sites from spreading false news on these phones, LG released their official statement.
Read more at CellCompare.net
Toshiba unveils new Satellite Pro Laptops
Coming this summer are the new Toshiba’s range business laptops. Three models from the Satellite Pro business laptops’ line will be released for small and medium-sized businesses. In fact, these new laptops come with professional features and its high-speed processing.
Read more at LaptopReviewsCentral.com
SandForce SF-1200 SSD Firmware Comparison
Very recently Benchmark Reviews has tested several Solid State Drive products based on the SandForce SF-1222 controller. The specifications for each product were each very similar, if not identical. Throughout all of our benchmark SSD tests the results were also very close, and nothing seemed to stand out until we concentrated in one particular area. The differences were made evident as we experimented with a new benchmark setting for upcoming SSD reviews. Consider these factors when you shop for and compare SandForce-based SSDs, just exactly as it required back when Indilinx firmware updates were changing the landscape.
Read more at Benchmark Reviews
Google to Launch Chrome OS and Chrome Netbook Late September
Yesterday Google announced its first foray into operating systems with their cloud software Chrome OS. On top of this, details have now emerged of the first netbook that will run the new Google cloud operating system. It has been suggested that both Chrome OS and the netbook should with us by late fall.
Read more at gaj-it.com
Motorola FlipOut smartphone gets official
The Moto FlipOut is meant to target at young users, it runs the Android 2.1 OS and is loaded with the MotoBlur UI which has interesting widgets such as “Happenings and Messages widgets” and Data Manager. The square-shaped handset weighs 120 grams but it’s rather thick, measures 17mm in thickness and packs a full 5-row QWERTY keyboard.
Read more at Techchee.com
Refurbished Verizon Cell Phones
Having a mobile phone in your pocket is not a fad anymore, but a necessity. These small devices are capable to keep us in touch with our friends all over the world. But on a market flooded with many mobile phone models, it is may be a difficult job to choose the best unit for our needs. So, if you are looking for an accessible mobile phone, in this review we will present you some refurbished Verizon cell phones which we think that are some of the best choices available on the market.
Read more at Techpin.com
Being able charge up multiple devices has to be a good thing doesn’t it? Well this is what the refresh electronics charging station does and the user can charge up to four devices in one go too! It is compatible with over a thousand devices. It looks great and keeps everything nice and tidy, with no wires and cables everywhere.
Read more at zedomax.com
A Camera that Needs To Be Thrown to Take Pictures
You are in the neighborhood park for a Sunday evening stroll. Families sit around picnic baskets, kids run around, guys play a game of touch football, and the health conscious are out for a jog.
Your eyes catch an orange object flying in the setting sky. The object traces an oblique trajectory and falls to the ground. An athletic looking man runs towards the fallen object and picks it up. He then checks his mobile phone, cracks a smile, and runs back a couple of meters.
Read more at Walyou.com
